Hello I’ll be handling the critique for your 250 Box Challenge.

Linework

-You are using the ghosting method to get smooth and confident lines while maintaining good accuracy, but the first thing that jumps at me is that you tend to repeat your lines, remember if you make a mistake leave it like that and do not try to correct it by drawing on top of it, as it only makes the mistake stand out more, make sure you are giving each mark as much attention and focus as it requires to avoid this issue. By getting rid of this habit you will start to develop the patience and discipline necessary to do your assignments to the best of your ability.

-When you tried to correct some of your mistakes by drawing on top of them, you unintentionally applied lineweight to the internal lines of the box, avoid this at all costs, as it breaks the cohesion of the form. Take a look at this diagram which shows how to correctly apply lineweight, you can also see it applied on a box here.

-Lastly, I can see that you did not apply hatching, it is not a necessary requirement, but it helps to clarify the orientation of our box in 3D space, the thing to keep in mind when applying it is that you should ghost each additional line so that you can draw it to the best of your ability, this way it will look more tidy and it won’t create a lot of visual clutter.

Box Construction

-You have used the line extension method correctly for all of your boxes, and most of your sets of lines converge which is correct. Just keep an eye out for lines converging in pairs as shown here, the more you practice the better you will get at this and eventually your lines will converge in sets rather than pairs, also I want to quickly redirect you to this diagram which shows the relationship between each pair of lines and the angles they form respective to their vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will always be quite similar, and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point, the further away you put the vanishing point the outer pair will be almost parallel but not fully

-I want you to keep experimenting with the rates of foreshortening, it seems to me that you have stuck to boxes with dramatic rates of foreshortening, so try boxes with more shallow rates, with the vanishing points outside the page.

-Lastly, I want you to keep experimenting with the orientation and angles of your boxes, I did notice that you had a tendency to draw very similar boxes. If you have trouble coming up with new orientations, take a look at this image and use it as reference, but do not try to copy them.

Okay, I want to make sure that you can draw your boxes without repeating your lines, so I’ll leave you some additional work, good luck.